Visiting Lecturers for the Tavistock D12 Course
Role: Visiting Lecturers for the Tavistock D12 Course (Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy)
Location: The Tavistock Clinic
Start date: Ongoing
Deadline for applications: No deadline
Role description: We are currently looking for some Visiting Lecturers to teach some theory seminars for D12 (Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy). The lectures run at 11.20am-12.20 on Tuesdays and will be face to face in the Tavistock Clinic. There are a mixture of reading seminars and lectures, with the aim of introducing students to some of the key psychoanalytic concepts, as well psychotherapeutic and counselling settings. The role would include encouraging and facilitating discussion on the given readings allocated for each seminar/lecture.
The relevant lectures are listed below:
11 October 2022 – Week 3: Introducing Psychoanalysis
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: Bateman, A and Holmes, J (1995) Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice, London: Routledge.
– Chapter 2: Models of the Mind
18 October 2022 – Week 4: Therapeutic Practice and the Setting
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading 1: Milton,J., Polmear,C. and Fabricius, J.(2004) A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis, London: Sage.
– Chapter 8: Psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies - Seminar Reading 2: Obholzer A. and Roberts V. (1994) The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organisational Stress in the Human Services
– Chapter 12: The Self-Assigned Impossible Task
15 November 2022 – Week 7: Containment
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: 1.Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective (2001) Bronstein, C. (ed): Whurr, London
Chap 12 Bion’s Theory of Containment – Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm
2. Wittenberg, I. The concept of containment and transformation of anxiety in Kleinian
Thinking. Tavistock Clinic Paper No 69
Recommended but not Essential Reading: Bion, W. (1962) Learning from Experience
22 November 2022 – Week 8: Attachment Theory
11.20 – 12.20: Lecture: Introduction to Attachment Theory –
- Seminar Reading: Music, G. (2001) Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children’s Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development, Hove: Psychology Press
– Chapter 6: Attachment
Term 2
17 January 2023 – Week 12 Adulthood and Later Life
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading 1: Waddell, M. (2000) Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Development of the Personality, London: Duckworth.
– Chapter 12: The Adult World - Seminar Reading 2: Jacques, E. Death and the mid-life crisis (1965) in Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2, London: Routledge
24 January 2023 – Week 13: Old Age
11.20 – 12.20: Lecture: Later Life – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: Waddell, M. (2000) Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Development of the Personality, London: Duckworth.
– Chapter 13: The Later Years
21 February 2023 – Week 16: Projective Identification
9.30 – 10.30: Work Discussion Seminars
10.30 – 11.20: Break
11.20 – 12.20: Lecture: Projective Identification
- Seminar Reading: Budd, S and Rusbridger, R (2005) Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics, London: Routledge.
– Chapter 13: Projective Identification
28 February 2023 – Week 17: Psychic Pain and Psychic Defences
9.30 – 10.30: Work Discussion Seminars
10.30 – 11.20: Break
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader: –
- Seminar Reading: Lemma, A. (2003) Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, London: Wiley (available on ebsco e-book).
– Chapter 6: Defences and Resistances, p.200-229
Term 3
18 April 2023- Week 21: Psychoanalysis, Organisations and the issue of climate change
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: 1. Obholzer A. and Roberts V. (1994) The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organisational Stress in the Human Services, London:
Routledge.
– Chapter 18: Managing Social Anxieties in Public Sector Organisations – Anton Obholzer
2. Weintrobe, S (2013) Engaging with climate change, psychoanalytic perspectives
– Chapter 3: The difficult problem of anxiety in thinking about climate change – Sally Weintrobe
09 May 2023 – Week 24: Depression
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar- Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading 1: Freud, S. (1917) Mourning and Melancholia. SE X1V, p. 237-260.
- Seminar Reading 2: Couve, C. (2007) ‘The Metapsychology of Depression’; in Looking into Later Life, Davenhill, R. (ed), London: Karnac. Contact email: FBenjamin@tavi-port.nhs.uk
The relevant lectures are listed below:
11 October 2022 – Week 3: Introducing Psychoanalysis
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: Bateman, A and Holmes, J (1995) Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice, London: Routledge.
– Chapter 2: Models of the Mind
18 October 2022 – Week 4: Therapeutic Practice and the Setting
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading 1: Milton,J., Polmear,C. and Fabricius, J.(2004) A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis, London: Sage.
– Chapter 8: Psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies - Seminar Reading 2: Obholzer A. and Roberts V. (1994) The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organisational Stress in the Human Services
– Chapter 12: The Self-Assigned Impossible Task
15 November 2022- Week 7: Containment
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: 1.Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective (2001) Bronstein, C. (ed): Whurr, London
Chap 12 Bion’s Theory of Containment – Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm
2. Wittenberg, I. The concept of containment and transformation of anxiety in Kleinian
Thinking. Tavistock Clinic Paper No 69
Recommended but not Essential Reading: Bion, W. (1962) Learning from Experience
22 November 2022 – Week 8: Attachment Theory
11.20 – 12.20: Lecture: Introduction to Attachment Theory –
- Seminar Reading: Music, G. (2001) Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children’s Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development, Hove: Psychology Press
– Chapter 6: Attachment
Term 2
17 January 2023 – Week 12 Adulthood and Later Life
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading 1: Waddell, M. (2000) Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Development of the Personality, London: Duckworth.
– Chapter 12: The Adult World - Seminar Reading 2: Jacques, E. Death and the mid-life crisis (1965) in Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2, London: Routledge
24 January 2023 – Week 13: Old Age
11.20 – 12.20: Lecture: Later Life – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: Waddell, M. (2000) Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Development of the Personality, London: Duckworth.
– Chapter 13: The Later Years
21 February 2023 – Week 16: Projective Identification
9.30 – 10.30: Work Discussion Seminars
10.30 – 11.20: Break
11.20 – 12.20: Lecture: Projective Identification
- Seminar Reading: Budd, S and Rusbridger, R (2005) Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics, London: Routledge.
– Chapter 13: Projective Identification
28 February 2023 Week 17: Psychic Pain and Psychic Defences
9.30 – 10.30: Work Discussion Seminars
10.30 – 11.20: Break
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader: –
- Seminar Reading: Lemma, A. (2003) Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, London: Wiley (available on ebsco e-book).
– Chapter 6: Defences and Resistances, p.200-229
Term 3
18 April 2023- Week 21: Psychoanalysis, Organisations and the issue of climate change
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar – Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading: 1. Obholzer A. and Roberts V. (1994) The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organisational Stress in the Human Services, London:
Routledge.
– Chapter 18: Managing Social Anxieties in Public Sector Organisations – Anton Obholzer
2. Weintrobe, S (2013) Engaging with climate change, psychoanalytic perspectives
– Chapter 3: The difficult problem of anxiety in thinking about climate change – Sally Weintrobe
09 May 2023 – Week 24: Depression
11.20 – 12.20: Reading Seminar- Seminar Leader:
- Seminar Reading 1: Freud, S. (1917) Mourning and Melancholia. SE X1V, p. 237-260.
- Seminar Reading 2: Couve, C. (2007) ‘The Metapsychology of Depression’; in Looking into Later Life, Davenhill, R. (ed), London: Karnac.
Contact email: FBenjamin@tavi-port.nhs.uk
